艺术的本质是一个复杂而又难于把握的难题。历代的美学家和文艺评论家,曾做过种种不同的解释,一种认为艺术虽然是一种意识,但它是客观现实在艺术家头脑中反映的产物,是一种社会意识形态,这种社会意识与其它社会意识相互影响,并对决定它的经济基础发生作用;另一种则认为艺术与社会 The essence of art is a complicated and difficult problem to grasp. The ancient estheticians and literary critics have done all sorts of different interpretations. One thinks that although art is a kind of consciousness, it is the product of objective reality reflected in the artist’s mind and a kind of social ideology. Such a society Consciousness interacts with other social identities and plays a role in determining its economic base; the other holds that art and society